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That is a huge lie. (Unless you're one of those that feed them nothing and don't clothe them, etc...)

Those "stipends" barely cover expenses - did I say "barely"? I meant RARELY? They come to you with the clothes on their backs and little else. They still have activities and needs and wants and "stuff"...

riderinthestorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-14-11 10:00 PM
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11. I agree but with a caveat....

She is against all forms of "government intervention" yet she was obviously deeply involved in a government program that clearly she felt "worked".

I've also read that she takes farm subsidies - another government program that obviously she is deeply involved in.

So unless she fostered those kids and didn't take ANY government assistance while doing so, or she protested that the government had a hand in helping the kids at all - she actually IS being a tad bit hypocritical.

That said, fostering is damn hard work and trying to walk a nuanced line with Bachmann's positions on government funding of public programs, and her fostering, would be damn near impossible.

I also say it's best to just leave it alone until or unless we get someone who can get the hypocritical message out about it.

Liberals are all about nuance.....unless it is about a conservative. Then if they participate in ANY government program they are a hypocrite even if they have never called for an end to the program. The get to "pretend" that conservatives are against ALL government programs.

It says more about them than those they criticize.

Joe the Revelator (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-14-11 10:03 PM
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13. Wait a minute: After all the bullshit Bachmann has put the country through, we're going to.....

turn on the righteous indignation because people are attacking HER? Give me a break.

JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-14-11 10:14 PM
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19. It's good to attack it. The point of swiftboating is to attack someone on their strength and turn..

A Wonkette operative says Bachmann has five kids of her own and raised an astonishing 23 foster kids. A nice person would say, “Oh, that’s a nice thing.” But our cold-hearted operative notes that Minnesota pays $30 a day, tax free, per foster kid.

“So if Bachmann has fostered 23 children, let’s say for an average of five years, that would come out to a non-taxable $1,259,250,” the Wonk-Op writes. “No wonder she’s anti-abortion. Children are a cash crop for her.”http://wonkette.com/211978/michele-bachmanns-baby-farm

These people are beyond sickening. What they don't realize is that there are more kids than foster parents. If fostering was such a cash cow then maybe they should do it. Oh, and I highly doubt that she had 23 children at the same time.

A Wonkette operative says Bachmann has five kids of her own and raised an astonishing 23 foster kids. A nice person would say, “Oh, that’s a nice thing.” But our cold-hearted operative notes that Minnesota pays $30 a day, tax free, per foster kid.

“So if Bachmann has fostered 23 children, let’s say for an average of five years, that would come out to a non-taxable $1,259,250,” the Wonk-Op writes. “No wonder she’s anti-abortion. Children are a cash crop for her.”http://wonkette.com/211978/michele-bachmanns-baby-farm

That comes out to an average of $10,950 a year to raise each kid. Average annual cost of raising a child is around $12,700.

So how exactly is she making cash off of this? Bueller? Bueller?

In most sports, cold-cocking an opposing player repeatedly in the face with a series of gigantic Slovakian uppercuts would get you a multi-game suspension without pay.

In hockey, it means you have to sit in the penalty box for five minutes.

riderinthestorm (1000+ posts) Tue Jun-14-11 09:42 PM
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26. I just tried Google Image and only came up with pics of 5 Bachman children
none of the foster children came up no matter how I searched.

God what an asshole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lets just paint some happy clouds over at the sunshine and lollipop land

How dare she not post pictures of other peoples children onto the internet! What a bitch!

And if she had posted them, she would be using them to make herself look good, abusing their privacy, making targets out of them, etc. Look at Palin, if she left her kids home, she was neglecting them. If she brought them along but didn't have them on stage, she was hiding them and dumping them on someone else. If she brought them onstage with her, they were props to make her look good. There is absolutely nothing Bachmann could do that won't draw criticism from some quarters. Period.

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In actual dollars, President Obama’s $4.4 trillion in deficit spending in just three years is 37 percent higher than the previous record of $3.2 trillion (held by President George W. Bush) in deficit spending for an entire presidency. It’s no small feat to demolish an 8-year record in just 3 years.

Under Obama’s own projections, interest payments on the debt are on course to triple from 2010 (his first budgetary year) to 2018, climbing from $196 billion to $685 billion annually.

It's not to hard to understand why the DUmmies have a hard time grasping why someone would want to be a foster parent when they believe it's easier to suck a baby into a sink via abortion than actually care for and love one.